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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absolutely, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, newspapers, relied, relying
«The only real people are the people who never existed»
«I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.»
«The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.»
«I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
alcohol, discovery, effect, intoxication, produces, quantities, sufficient
«Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?»
«The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.»
«I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.»
«The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
appreciate, deceived, terribly, The Pleasure
«Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party»
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